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“When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c8183a427d38752d87458d73a5c8e787dadbfd1a3cf00723c9e801f28eaa342
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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